Imperial Escort Cruiser

Now that I am done with Serenity and my commission projects, I'm starting on a project that I have been wanting to try since I found this design back in January.  The Imperial Escort Cruiser is a fan design that I found on DeviantArt .  It is a small patrol Cruiser that belongs to the Star Destroyer ship line.  

Since no kit of this exists, I will be scratch building the entire ship.  As this is only my second attempt at doing this kind of thing, the Escort Cruiser is ideal.  Lots of straight lines to keep things simple. I plan on building this at 1/4222 scale to match my growing fleet of Star Destroyers. At that scale the finished model works out to 2.1 inches long. Here are the renders that I am working from:

I started by working out the rough shapes in MsPaint as I don't have any 3D modeling software:

Then I cut the shape for the upper hull in styrene:

And assembled a rough look:

After looking at my cut outs, I decided that I wasn't too fond of what I had.  I went back and reworked my entire blue print to something I'm a lot happier with.

 Here is the new blueprint next to my original:

Still have a long ways to go with this one. But I think it will turn out great.